1940 Born in Antwerp, Belgium
1955 - 1960 Studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium
1961 - 1962 Military service
1965 Organises the first Happening in Antwerp alongside a small number of fellow artists. Panamarenko publishes Happening News.
1967 First exhibit at the Antwerp Wide White Space Gallery. Starts building his first aeroplanes.
1969 - 1971 Building of the legendary zeppelin The Aeromodeller
1981 Panamarenko introduces his Negentroop. A natural science-based journey to the stars.
1987 - 1990 Builds a series of Pastille motors
1990 Builds the first Archaeopterix (intelligent chicken) after the model of the prehistoric bird.
1996 Panamarenko shows his steel submarine Pahama Novaya Zemblaya at the Ronny Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp. Its initial purpose was to sail to Spitsbergen.
1998 The flying boat Scotch Gambit is taking shape. Given the size of the piece Panamarenko has to move to a hangar in the Antwerp port, where the boat is completed.
2000 One-man exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London and at the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel.
2001 First major one-man exhibition in New York City (Dia Center for the Arts). Panamarenko designs the artist book For Clever Scholars, Astronomers and Doctors.
2002 Opening of Antwerpse Luchtschipbouw in Borgerhout. The venue is a workshop for artists as well as an exhibition space.
2003 At the request of the City of Antwerp, Panamarenko puts together the statue Pepto Bismo 2003 on St.-Jansplein. Publication of the book Tekenen en Rekenen (with the artist’s most significant drawings from the 60s to the present).
2004 Panamarenko receives the Plantin-Moretus prize for his book Tekenen en Rekenen (drawing and counting), that was chosen as the most beautiful art book of 2003. His successful book For Clever Scholars, Astronomers and Doctors is being reprinted for the first time.
2005 To celebrate his 65th birthday in early February, Panamarenko is formally invited by Mayor Patrick Janssens to the Antwerp town hall. The artist is praised for his "non-conformist behaviour, also described as creativity," according to the mayor.
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium